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Winifred Dobson
Interview Questions:
What is your birthday?
What are your parents names?
Where were you born?
Who lived in your childhood house with you?
What did you house look like?
What did your parents do for a living?
What would their economic status be considered?
What was your childhood like?
When did you start school?
What was your schooling like?
What did you do for fun as a kid?
What were some trends back then?
When you were in high school, or when you were a teen what was a political issue you remember?
When did you get your first job?
Were your parents strict?
What was a females life like back then?
How do you think living in the south affected how your grew up?
How old were you when you moved out?
When did you vote for the first time? How old were you, who did you vote for?
When did you meet Daddy Tom?
What year did you get married?
Where was the wedding?
What was the wedding like?
When you were newly wed what was the big political issue or even pop culture like?
What kind of job did you have when you were first married?
What did Daddy Tom do?
Why did you move to Gainesville?
Was Gainesville a wealthy town?
What was it like to go to down town gainesville?
Were things clearly segregated?
What year was May beth born?
What was going on in America at this time?
What kinds of clothes did you wear?
When did the family buy a car?
Did you have two cars?
Was your house considered big?
Were you a strict parent?
Did you have a group of woman that you hung out with?
What was the cost of groceries for a week back then?
Did you enjoy life in the fifties?
What kind of clothes did you wear?
What year did you start experimenting with wiggs?
Do you remember when my dads school was integrated for the first time?
Was it a big deal in the town when the whoel Civil rights movement was starting?
Did you work while all your kids were in school?
Did you have help around the house?
What did you think of Elvis?
What were some popular toys kids like my dad played with?
As a mother, was the best technology invented? What was the worst?
By the time, Nancy left for college, what was going on in America? What was a political issue at the time?
What did you think about Martin Luther King?
Do you remember the river catching fire in florida?
Were you in favor of Kennedy’s legislations, as well as Lyndon B Johnsons?
Do you remember Nixon and the watergate scandal?
How did this issue change the way you thought about the government?
What year do you think brought the most challenges in your life?
Has America evolved for the better or the worse during your life?
What do you wish did not change over time?
What do you think the future holds for my generation?
What have been the most dramatic changes of American daily life?
Did you ever imagine yourself having a smart phone?
Do you think life is more complicated now?
Who was your favorite president during your voting life time and why?

Integration today
The difference between desegregation and integration is that desegregation is ending the seperation between two groups and giving the same rights to all races. Integration is joining everyone into one big group with no racism.

Federalism & Civil Rights
With the Constitution saying that everyone has equal rights, every U.S. citizen should be treated equally no matter what. When one government isnt doing it the other one should be.

Federalism & Civil Rights
The Federal Government needs to protect their citizens rights when they are not being treated equally even when the state governments are not doing so, that is why we have two governments because if one isn't treating you equally, you will always have one that does treat you equally. The U.S. constitution says that everyone should be treated equally and both the federal and state government need to enforce that.

Integration today
Desegregation and Integration are two very different things. Desegregation is just ending the separation between the two groups. Integration is turning those two groups into one big group where there is no racism and descrimination between the two groups. It would be imposable to change that because there always going to people who are racist to the other party, but it could happen over the course of hundreds of years there might not be anymore racism.

School desegregation
School Desegregation was a very explosive issue, it was a big issue in Little Rock because the whites where so used to the fact that they had there own school and blacks had their own school. It was very bad in Little Rock because it was the first school to try this, and the white in Little Rock wouldn't stand for it, so they started rioting, and they had to bring in the national guard to try to keep the peace it was getting so bad with all of the riots going on by the school everyday. If it where to happen to me and I where one of the blacks i would refuse it because you are going to leave all of your friends and you are moving to another school, so you know no one going to the school, it must have been tough for the Little Rock 9.

Segregation
Segregation was very bad in the South because of slavery and the whites where very used to slavery and how they could just tell the blacks what to do and they would do it. The blacks where treated very badly in the fact that pretty much everything in the south was segregated, from the jobs they could get, all the way to what type of education they could get. The black didn't have the opptunities that the white people had.

Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action was put into place because they wanted to get rid of dicrimination in America for good. They thought that the black's where allowed to the same freedoms that whites had. It gave blacks an equal oppurtunity to get a job, the same opportunity that whites had.

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